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Taalas' current chip runs a small version of Meta's Llama 3.1, though the company is working on chips for bigger and more advanced models.

Taalas' current chip runs a small version of Meta's Llama 3.1, though the company is working on chips for bigger and more advanced models.

The Information: Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B  —  Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10 billion, according to people with knowledge of the discussion.

Private investment firms of John Doerr and other billionaires are backing geothermal energy, nylon recycling and more.

Private investment firms of John Doerr and other billionaires are backing geothermal energy, nylon recycling and more.

Google wants its AI to code better. It may have found a shortcut, and it runs through a startup of about 35 people. The company is in talks with Mechanize, a San Francisco startup that trains AI agents to write software, Business Insider reported. The deal would be worth more than $1.5 billion, four people […] This story continues at The Next Web

Federal prosecutors say Taj Tarsha misled backers and used investor funds for personal expenses.

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents  —  OpenAI and Google invest heavily in voice systems as main way to interact with a new generation of AI agents.

Jeff Dean, a key figure in Google's AI advancements, leaves after 27 years to start Discovery Loop, a new AI venture backed by Alphabet, amid a major AI leadership reshuffle.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Business Insider: Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B  —  Jack is back.  —  Chinese billionaire Jack Ma's private equity firm secretly led the latest funding round for Corgi …

Hark, the secretive AI startup founded earlier this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, today announced Handoff, a "computer use agent" (CUA) that it says is among the top-performing in the world at navigating the open web on a user's behalf — ordering dinner on DoorDash, booking flights on United and Delta, or messaging job candidates on LinkedIn — all autonomously, end-to-end. Sign-ups open to the public today at hark.com, with availability planned for later this month as part of the initial release of Hark's software platform. The company says Handoff recorded the top-ever score on Online-Mind2Web (OM2W), a third-party benchmark with a human-evaluated leaderboard for web agents, posting a 97.7 against 92.8 for OpenAI's GPT 5.4, 84.1 for Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, and 69 for Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. Hark also says it can serve the model at less than one-tenth the token price of competing frontier models — $0.18

Business Insider: Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech  —  Google wants its AI to get better at coding.  It might have found a shortcut.  —  The tech giant has been in discussions …

The puppies represent a key first step towards addressing canine allergenicity and mark potentially a significant advance in veterinary biotechnology. The post Fur Real: Biotech Startup Eliminates Major Dog Allergen in Beagle Pups Using CRISPR appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

For founders building from idea to MVP to scale, Chop Dawg makes the case for choosing a technical partner with process, staying power, and long-term accountability. Start With the Decision That Shapes the Product For a startup founder, the first version of an app is rarely just a first version. It is the test of […] This story continues at The Next Web

Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: Dubai-based vehicle fleet management startup Moove raised $250M led by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala at a $2.1B valuation to build autonomous vehicle “nests” for docking  —  Moove has closed a $250 million investment round led by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala …

Demand for microgravity research and manufacturing is brewing — perhaps literally. When SpaceX launched the first test flight of Starfall, its commercial reentry capsule, on June 23, the company did […] The post SpaceX’s new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups appeared first on SpaceNews.

Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup building grid-scale iron-air batteries, has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale a technology that can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours. The round was led by Plural and HV, with participation from Positron Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to $61 million. The batteries work […] This story continues at The Next Web

Deel, the global HR and payroll platform, has acquired Clarity, a Tel Aviv-based AI cybersecurity startup that detects deepfakes and verifies identities in real time. The deal, reportedly worth between $45 million and $50 million in a mix of cash and shares, is Deel’s 15th acquisition and its first in Israel. The announcement landed alongside […] This story continues at The Next Web

The FDA, while promising flexibility in approving Baby KJ-type gene editing, still has set standards difficult for a small startup to meet.

Anthropic has found another place to buy computing power, and this time it is a company barely old enough to have a logo. The AI developer has signed a $10bn, six-year deal with Volta, a cloud startup that only just launched, according to Bloomberg. The agreement is Volta’s marquee contract and, for Anthropic, one more […] This story continues at The Next Web

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta; Volta says the deal runs for six years  —  Anthropic PBC has struck a $10 billion deal for computing capacity from a months-old infrastructure startup, according to people familiar …

A new company wants to be the one that pays for everyone else’s AI chips. Volta Infra Holdings has raised $300m in venture funding and lined up a further $5bn in financing to help a broader range of tech firms afford Nvidia’s costly hardware, in a round that values it at $2.4bn. The raise was […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI denies Apple's allegations in a blog post. The company claims that it doesn't have and even doesn't want its rivals trade secrets.

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: AI cloud startup Volta raised $300M co-led by a16z and Altimeter at a $2.4B valuation and says it landed a $10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer  —  Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a new artificial intelligence cloud company, has raised $300 million in venture funding and secured …

Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on Chinese humanoids.

Venture capitalists use (mostly) other people’s money to make bets on the future, and/or to collect chunks of that money as payment to themselves for collecting the money and gambling some of it. This new paper looks back over how those bets about the future seem to compare with making random guesses: “Do Venture Capitalists […]

Mapping Startup Fraud A new report from the UK’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School has traced

People tell the AI boom as a story about chips and models. Underneath it is metal. Every data centre, chip, power line and robot starts with copper and a handful of other minerals. The United States has quietly lost control of where they come from. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to change that. Mariana […] This story continues at The Next Web

A company whose product is an AI that hacks your network has just tripled in value. It did so in the same week that AI hacking stopped being hypothetical. Horizon3 has raised a $250m Series E at a valuation above $2bn, up from $650m a year ago. The timing is the story. Days earlier, OpenAI […] This story continues at The Next Web

Robinhood is launching a second publicly traded closed-end fund that will invest in private companies from the Y Combinator ecosystem. Robinhood Ventures Fund II filed to offer 7.6 million shares at $25 each, with pricing expected after market close on August 12. The fund will trade on the NYSE under the ticker RVII. Goldman Sachs, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Jeff Bezos has invested in Cambridge start-up CuspAI, a $2.6 billion AI firm working with Nvidia and Meta to tackle looming shortages of critical chip materials such as gallium.

Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B for Valar Atomics, valuing the nuclear startup at $6 billion. That is three times the $2 billion valuation from its earlier round just months ago. Atreides Management, Point72, and Snowpoint Ventures also participated. Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire will join Valar’s board. The company also secured a $200 […] This story continues at The Next Web

The AI hardware conversation is stuck on one word: compute. A startup out of Tel Aviv wants to change the word to memory. Majestic Labs, founded in 2023 by former Google and Meta engineers, has unveiled a server it says can do the work of a rack of Nvidia GPUs. It does so by attacking […] This story continues at The Next Web

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A London startup two years old has just become one of Britain’s boldest bets against Nvidia. Olix has raised $312m and tripled its valuation to $3.3bn in six months. Its founder, James Dacombe, is 25. And its pitch has a timely twist: a chip that skips the very parts the rest of the industry is […] This story continues at The Next Web

Founders ask customers what they want. Sales teams hear what they will not pay for. The first answer is useful. The second may contain more information. A customer interview can reveal frustrations, preferences, and imagined future behaviour. A real sales process introduces something interviews often lack: consequences. There is a budget. There are competing priorities. […] This story continues at The Next Web

A South Korean chip designer few outside the industry have heard of just became a $2.2bn company. DeepX has signed the first tranche of a Series D round that values it at roughly four times its previous mark. And it is not finished raising. The first slice is about $29m, from existing backers BNW Investment […] This story continues at The Next Web

A home-battery company that did not exist three years ago is now worth $13bn. Base Power has raised $1bn in a Series D and launched its own battery, Base Core. The bet behind the number is blunt: the grid cannot keep up with America’s power demand, and thousands of home batteries can. The round values […] This story continues at The Next Web

Italian startup Sizable Energy has begun testing an offshore energy storage technology designed to […]

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February  —  British entrepreneur behind Olix raises $312mn from investors including Arm in effort to take on Nvidia

The U.S. Census Bureau said July 9 that it received 531,423 business applications in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, capping what was for the first half of the year the highest sustained rate of such applications in the 22-year history of the series. The surge is being interpreted as the first real evidence of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven entrepreneurial boom. Not necessarily. Artificial intelligence has made the mechanics of starting a business nearly free, and the mechanics were never the barrier that mattered. When you apply for an employer identification number, the Internal Revenue Service asks when you expect to start paying wages. It is one line on a form, and you can leave it blank. That’s happening more often, and it matters more than the total number of forms submitted. Through the 2010s the rate of new business formations was falling, triggering worries that the country’s dynamism was fading. Jorge Guzman of Columbia Business School and Scott Stern of MIT

Mitsuru Obe / Nikkei Asia: Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market  —  TOKYO — Japanese startups are entering defense drone production as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seeks to reduce dependence on China and expand domestic manufacturing.

Wall Street Journal: A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside  —  Silicon Valley startups are setting up open models, with some operating on shoestring budgets because of limited interest from VCs

SINGAPORE — A Beijing-based startup has secured around $14 million to build a satellite constellation for tracking orbital objects, adding to China’s growing SSA sector.  Xingchen Daohe, also known as […] The post Chinese startup raises funds for space situational awareness constellation, joining commercial SSA rush appeared first on SpaceNews.

Acrab introduced Agent Box, a compact AI computer claiming powerful local language model performance, lower costs, efficient processing, and autonomous capabilities.

Majestic Labs unveiled an Arm-based AI server replacing GPUs with unified LPDDR6 memory, claiming lower costs and dramatically larger capacity.

Etched secured SK Hynix backing at a $10.3 billion valuation while expanding custom AI inference hardware using Low Voltage Inference technology.

Henry Ford Health and Michigan State named the first two investments from their $10M health venture fund. What the technologies do and do not do yet.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips After years of studying history’s greatest venture capital successes, my InvestorPlace colleague Luke Lango has developed a straightforward process for identifying exceptional companies. The post How Venture Capitalists Really Decide Where to Invest appeared first on InvestorPlace.

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InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Over years of studying some of history's greatest venture capital successes, Luke Lango has developed a straightforward framework for evaluating young companies before they ever reach Wall Street. In today's Smart Money, he shares that process and explains why he believes it's more important than ever now that private investing is becoming accessible to individual investors. The post Most Startup Pitches Sound Great, so Here’s How to Find the Real Opportunities appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Atomarine wants to put data centers on modular barges for ocean-based deployments. The firm says these can be powered by LNG-powered ships and seamlessly swap to ship-based SMRs when they become available.

Seven weeks after its reactor went critical at Idaho National Laboratory, Antares has raised $470m to put microreactors on US military bases by 2028.

Paper raised $34M from Accel and ICONIQ after growing ARR 25x in a month. Continue reading...

Intel is quietly handing one of its crown jewels to a tiny, stealthy startup. And that startup is run by a longtime business partner of Intel’s own chief executive. The chipmaker is giving RosaicLabs access to its Atom processor technology, according to a source and documents reviewed by Reuters. Atom is the building block of […] This story continues at The Next Web

More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal  —  Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents …

A startup wants companies to stop asking real people what they think, and ask fake ones instead. Simile has raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build “agentic twins,” AI stand-ins for real consumers that firms can survey by the million. Greenoaks led the round, the New York Times reported, with Index Ventures and others […] This story continues at The Next Web

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $59M  —  Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn Inc. today revealed that it has raised $40 million in new funding to accelerate development of what it calls an agentic data control plane.

With four aisles and no windows, the airliner would be the first real challenger to Boeing's U.S. monopoly in decades.

Intel reportedly licenses Atom-class x86 cores to a startup led by Lip-Bu Tan's co-investor and incorporated in May.

Decode Age, registered as Centenarians Life Sciences Private Limited in August 2021, runs a Bengaluru sequencing laboratory and a consumer supplement business focused on markers of biological ageing. The venture was founded by Parth Amin, Darshit Patel and Rakesh Somani, who initially invested about ₹1 crore and earlier raised roughly $150,000 to set up a […] The post Bengaluru startup sells gut microbiome tests, longevity supplements appeared first on Longevity.Technology.

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AI-driven layoffs in 2026 caused over 120,000 tech job losses. Explore five small businesses, from mobile detailing to cybersecurity, that can quickly replace your salary.

Reuters: Source and docs: Intel has given access to its Atom processor tech to Rosaic, a new startup led by Amarjit Gill; Lip-Bu Tan and Gill are longtime co-investors  —  Intel (INTC.O) has provided access to some of its processor technology to a new startup, according to a source and documents reviewed by Reuters …

Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built. Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observability, connectivity, and security — as shown at VB Transform 2026. BAND is orchestrating all the agents you have running in the backgroundIn the very near future, agents will be deployed everywhere, and they will do work on our behalf, noted Vlad Luzin, CTO and co-founder of BAND. As he describes it: They will receive tasks, visit registries, recruit other agents to help them, delegate subtasks to AI peers in a “conversational space,” gather and share results, then return a summary to the human user. BAND is building a coordination infrastructure layer for multi-agent AI systems to make this a reality. Why don’t Telegram, Slack, or Discord solve the problem? These platforms were built

Most AI imaging startups build one model per disease. A Cambridge company has raised $20m to build a single model for the whole chest. Then it can spin the rest out of that. Qureight makes AI imaging tools for lung and heart clinical trials. It closed a $20m Series B led by Molten Ventures, the […] This story continues at The Next Web

A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any more, so stop trying. Act Security launched on Tuesday, Calcalist reported. It was founded in 2025 by the team that sold Medigate to Claroty for […] This story continues at The Next Web

Niko Gallogly / New York Times: New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy  —  Pangram, an A.I. detection start-up, promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn't made by humans.

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high  —  Seed funding trends tell us a lot about how savvy investors see the future unfolding.  And lately, the data tells us there's great concern about cybersecurity risks posed by AI.

Taylor Herzlich / New York Post: NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of Runlayer's safety and governance product  —  A New York-based AI startup is suing Rippling - a Silicon Valley software giant that got a $3 million tax break from Gov. Kathy Hochul …

EthSystems, which spun out of the Ethereum Foundation earlier this month, is focused on building privacy infrastructure for banks and other financial institutions.

Kyle Alspach / CRN: Data security startup Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which provides non-human identity security, in a deal valued at about $1B  —  The $1 billion acquisition deal aims to bring capabilities for non-human identity security to the Cyera data security platform.

Brokerages, startups and even retail investors are building AI agents that can help oversee portfolios and automate investing tasks once handled by humans.

Brokerages, startups and even retail investors are building AI agents that can help oversee portfolios and automate investing tasks once handled by humans.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity at a pace that many security operations centers were never designed to handle. While organizations are embracing AI to improve efficiency, attackers are also using the technology to increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of cyberattacks. The result is growing pressure on enterprises to rethink the foundations of security operations […] This story continues at The Next Web

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt  —  British startup Dwelly has raised $170 million to buy more real estate businesses and inject artificial intelligence into their operations.

The Information: Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4; the Chinese startup trained K3 on Nvidia chips including Blackwell  —  Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI, flush from the breakout success of its recently released model, Kimi K3, is already discussing plans …

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The UK government proposes a £1B Scale-up Fund to support high-growth British companies by connecting pension investments with innovation, aiming to boost economic growth and deliver returns for savers.

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about $3B in funding and was valued at $32B last year  —  Nvidia Corp. has committed to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. …

Most of the money pouring into small nuclear reactors is chasing AI data centres. This round is chasing a date. Antares has raised $470mn, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with Point72 Ventures, Shine Capital and Industrious Ventures joining. The split is $370mn of equity and $100mn of debt, Bloomberg reported. The company was founded […] This story continues at The Next Web

Armstrong said blockchain technology acts as a general-purpose infrastructure that will underpin future automation rather than competing with it.

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The Ministry of Education selected six universities on Monday as outstanding performers in employment and startup support for international students, backing schools' efforts amid a rise in foreign enrollment and growing interest among them to settle in Korea. Kyung Hee University and Vision College of Jeonju took the grand prizes, recognized for programs that guide international students from campus to career. Kangwon National University, Kyungbok University, Kyungsung University and Chungnam National University won merit prizes for customized education tied to regional industry needs. At Kyung Hee University, the four-year university category winner, international students' core competencies are certified in stages. Digital badges let students apply their completion records for career planning and job preparation programs, along with competency certifications, directly in job searches. Vision College of Jeonju in North Jeolla Province, the two-year college category winner, attracted

Jamie John / Financial Times: How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups  —  Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students

SAN FRANCISCO — President Lee Jae Myung said Saturday that Korea and the United States should advance their ties beyond their time-honored alliance by expanding cooperation into technology, innovation and startups. Lee made the remarks at a meeting in San Francisco with venture capitalists investing in Silicon Valley. The Korean president arrived here Friday en route to Brazil, the first destination of his three-nation trip to South America. "Korea and the U.S. should expand the scope of their cooperation beyond the longstanding security alliance to include technology, innovation and startups," Lee said. He insisted that combining the U.S.' world-class venture capital capacity and global networks with Korea's advanced technology and manufacturing competitiveness would create new global innovators, the likes of global chipmakers Samsung Electrnics and SK hynix, that will lead the world.

Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, they warn, would gut the next wave of US companies. The plea, first reported by Politico, came in letters from […] This story continues at The Next Web

Nearly 200 U.S. startups are urging the Trump administration to avoid broad restrictions on Chinese open-weight AI models, arguing a ban would increase costs and hurt innovation. The post Hundreds of AI Startups Are Pushing Back Against Washington appeared first on TechRepublic.

Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout, fits autonomy kits to excavators. A tie-up would extend Masayoshi Son’s robotics buying spree from the factory floor to the building site. SoftBank is weighing a deal for Gravis Robotics, a Swiss startup that fits excavators and diggers with the sensors and software to run themselves, according to Bloomberg. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

Long celebrated for its volcanic peaks and coastal tourism, Korea’s Jeju Island is engineering a new identity as a cross-border tech incubator. Local authorities said Friday that a newly launched 10.1 billion won ($7.3 million) venture fund — backed jointly by Korean capital, local enterprises and Japan-based ethnic Korean investors — has deployed its debut capital investment, signaling a fresh pipeline of cross-border funding for regional entrepreneurs. The fund's premier investment goes to Seropim, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup specializing in 3D content creation tools aimed at the global media and gaming markets. Jointly managed by the Jeju Center for Creative Economy and Innovation and Sevenstar Partners, the fund selected Seropim after a rigorous screening process involving more than 15 investor pitch sessions and detailed financial audits. The Startup Korea Korea-Japan Jeju Fund was established specifically to solve a chronic hurdle for regional entrepreneurs: securing

Introduction PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful and reliable open-source databases available, yet many startups struggle to use it effectively at scale. The difference between a thriving PostgreSQL deployment and one that collapses under load often comes down to understanding a few key principles and avoiding common pitfalls. This comprehensive guide distills years of production experience into actionable advice for startups building on PostgreSQL. Part 1: The Fundamentals Schema Design Prin...

Bloomberg: Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation  —  AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the efforts.

Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital led the round and both took board seats. The company plans to secure US government contracts for AI-driven offensive and defensive cyber operations against adversaries including […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec.  —  Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round …